A week after Canadian regulators toughened oil train safety standards, pressure is building on U.S. regulators to act.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer on Wednesday urged the U.S. Department of Transportation to require railroads to provide detailed information about hazardous materials to local emergency responders along the route.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a letter to President Barack Obama, outlined a series of steps compiled by state agencies to reduce the dangers oil trains pose.

Also Wednesday, Fuel shipping company Global Partners announced they will require tanker cars to meet with updated standards for all crude oil trains arriving at its East and West Coast terminals, starting in upstate New York and Oregon.

Global Partners, based in Waltham, Mass., said it will only accept trains consisting entirely of a new type of car, which is more resistant to puncturing and leakage in a derailment like the one in Lac-Megantic.

Oil trains "have become almost part of the scenery in upstate New York," Schumer said, as Bakken crude flows from North Dakota to the Port of Albany, where much of it is transferred to barges and ships to be delivered to East Coast refineries.

Other oil trains continue south from Albany to those refineries.

"Today's train derailment in Lynchburg is another horrible demonstration that these tank cars that are barreling down rail tracks across New York are ticking time bombs," Schumer said.

"I hope this serves as a wake-up call to federal regulators that outmoded tank cars need to be retrofitted or completely phased out, and that local first responders must have all of the information they need to contain these fires and save lives."

Cuomo also called for retiring the so-called DOT-111 tank cars, as well as requiring more frequent track inspections, routing oil trains along the "safest routes," updating emergency response plans including incidents on the water as well as rail, and tightening rail reporting requirements in case of accidents.

The Lynchburg derailment "is the latest in a series of accidents involving trains transporting crude oil, a startling pattern that underscores the need for action," Cuomo said. "The federal government must overhaul the safety regulations, starting with taking DOT-111 trains off the rails now."

Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, called Cuomo's report "a solid first step which acknowledges the risks and dangers of Big Oil's plan to turn New York into a global crude oil hub.

"The federal government has been too slow to step up its oversight, and the industry has grown accustomed to getting its way," he added.

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy, a former firefighter, said he was stunned and disturbed that emergency responders don't have more information about hazardous rail cargo.